Ian K. Smith Quotes

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

Ian K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1969

Topics

WorkHappinessDeathTryingYouWhy

Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.

Jimmy Chin

LifeClimbMy LifeTwiceMostOnce

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

Jerry Greenfield

GreatMeFreeGreat ThingsDelicious

There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don't talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk.

Maxine Waters

LoveTimePeopleAppreciateCountry

Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better.

Matt Lauer

ThinkBetterLearnYouBadEven

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Michael Frayn

CarManWaitingGreenLightsGo

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

John Spencer

FutureTechnologyResearchWorldRat

When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I'm British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that's what an American can look like as well.

Riz Ahmed

AgeDayPeopleMeGrowing UpLook

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Mason Cooley

GreatSolitudeSeldomHisReader

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

Martin O'Malley

PositiveNegativeNewTheoryMost

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

Louise Slaughter

CollegeStandCreditBuildingsCards

I'm not just going to get a deal; I'm going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No I.D. to Def Jam, I got full creative control, the money was great, the contract was good, and I got to create the album that I wanted.

Logic

GoodGreatMoneyCreativeControl

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Joshua Leonard

YourselfPainJoyYouPiecesRole

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